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First edition. |
Description |
370 pages ; 21 cm |
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Note |
Includes readers guide. |
Summary |
"Inspired by a remarkable true story, a young teacher evacuates children to safety across perilous waters, in a moving and triumphant new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor. 1940, Kent: Alice King is not brave or daring--she's happiest finding adventure through the safe pages of books. But times of war demand courage, and as the threat of German invasion looms, a plane crash near her home awakens a strength in Alice she'd long forgotten. Determined to do her part, she finds a role perfectly suited to her experience as a schoolteacher--to help evacuate Britain's children overseas. 1940, London: Lily Nichols once dreamed of using her mathematical talents for more than tabulating the cost of groceries, but life, and love, charted her a different course. With two lively children and a loving husband, Lily's humble home is her world, until war tears everything asunder. With her husband gone and bombs raining down, Lily is faced with an impossible choice: keep her son and daughter close, knowing she may not be able to protect them, or enroll them in a risky evacuation scheme, where safety awaits so very far away. When a Nazi U-boat torpedoes the S. S. Carlisle carrying a ship of children to Canada, a single lifeboat is left adrift in the storm-tossed Atlantic. Alice and Lily, strangers to each other--one on land, the other at sea--will quickly become one another's very best hope as their lives are fatefully entwined"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction.
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Shipwrecks -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Evacuation of civilians -- England -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Canada -- Fiction.
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England -- Fiction.
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Atlantic Ocean -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
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Historical fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Gaynor, Hazel. Last lifeboat. First edition New York : Berkley, 2023 9780593440322 (DLC) 2022048107 |
ISBN |
9780593440315 (trade paperback) : $17.00 |
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0593440315 (trade paperback) |
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